Re: [VOTE] Deprecations for PHP 8.1

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021, 9:14 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > On 01.07.2021 at 14:15, Pierre Joye wrote: > > > Hi Nikita, > > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 4:32 PM Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi internals, > >> > >> I have opened voting on > >> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecations_php_8_1. > The > >> vote closes on 2021-07-14. > >> > >> This RFC is a collection of various deprecation suggestions from > different > >> people. Each deprecation is voted separately, and should be considered > on > >> its own merit. > >> > >> Most deprecations should be uncontroversial, but there are some more > >> contentious ones as well: See > >> https://externals.io/message/113657 for > >> additional discussion. > > > > I hope the num_points do not pass. However if it does, I would like to > > still reconsider it for the reasons I mentioned in the discussion: > support > > nightmare > > > > Any image will be broken if a server is not configured smoothly for > prod. > > Unlike another script, the depreciation is not visible directly in the > > page. Given the amount of usages of these functions out there, I really > ask > > to reconsider this one. Too much possible hassles for no real gain. > > In my opinion, *not* having a signature like > > function imagepolygon( > GdImage $image, > array $points, > int $num_points_or_color, > ?int $color = null > ): bool {} > > and the respective implementation mess, is a gain; not a huge gain, but > still a real gain to me. > > And image generation code which relies on display_errors to catch errors > is already broken. By your argument, we could not even introduce new > warnings. > > Anyhow, fixing the deprecated code would be trivial (the RFC shows an > example), and can even be automated, and I consider it not unlikely that > code which runs on PHP 8 has unit-tests and/or static analysis what may > catch this issue early. The codes which will do this are not the ones I am worrying about. This is not some function never used before but anyone out there. Or something that causes pains to the engine or prevents major features to happen. This function has to be replaced, not made incompatible. best Pierre